About the Authors

Liping Li

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Bioactive Substances and Resources Utilization of Chinese Herbal Medicine (Peking Union Medical College), Ministry of Education, Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China, Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

Wenxuan Han

Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant-Soil Interactions, Ministry of Education, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China

Niels Thevs

Affiliation Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

Xiuhong Jia

Affiliation College of Horticulture and Forestry, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China

Chengjun Ji

Affiliation Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China

Dongmei Jin

Affiliation Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, Beijing, China

Ping He

Affiliation State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Regional Eco-Process and Function Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China

Armin O. Schmitt

Affiliation Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

Giuseppe Tommaso Cirella

Affiliation Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

Stefan Zerbe

Stefan.Zerbe@unibz.it

Affiliation Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LL SZ WH NT. Performed the experiments: LL WH XJ CJ DJ PH. Analyzed the data: LL AOS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SZ NT WH XJ CJ DJ. Wrote the paper: LL WH SZ NT AOS XJ CJ DJ PH GTC.